She rubbed her eyes and stretched, then sat up, her hands going to her hair.

She sat down at the table, shaking her head.

She sat quietly, staring at me from the wide eyes.

She smoothed the skirt, sat down, then stood up and went back to the windows.

She sat down on the nearest, fallen with age and gray with sea-damp, her fingers tracing the indecipherable carved letters padded with green moss.

She sat down and played two slots at once, looking grim, as if bested by mechanical devices, and Owen felt sorry for the lay-sisters depending on her support.

She saw me and sat down beside me, three feet away.

She also sketched President Teddy Roosevelt during her White House visits in 1902, during which " He sat for two hours, talking most of the time, reciting Kipling, and reading scraps of Browning.

She sat on a tripod seat over an opening in the earth.

She paid her fare and sat in an empty seat in the first row of back seats reserved for blacks in the " colored " section.

She sat on a plain wooden throne with a white woolen cushion and did not trouble to choose an emblem for herself.

She became particularly interested in the ideas of Herbert Marcuse and on her return to Brandeis she sat in on his course.

She wrote in her diary on 15 March 1910 that she couldn't understand the family's regard for Rasputin as " almost a saint " when she viewed him as only a " khlyst " Tyutcheva told Grand Duchess Xenia that the starets visited when Olga and Tatiana were getting ready for bed and sat there talking with them and " caressing " them.

She sat for other paintings of the time, often topless or nude, other times in traditional poses.

She sat in the section where, if a white person was standing, the blacks would have to get up and move to the back.

She sat on the House Armed Services Committee, and was involved in government oversight, passing several procurement reforms.

She then sat drinking cocktails and playing a foxtrot record, " Hula Lou ," over and over for about four hours as she sat watching Kalstedt die.

") This comedy had an immense influence, as regards manipulation of dialogue, upon all subsequent English comedies of repartee, and he who wants to trace the ancestry of Tony Lumpkin and Mrs Hardcastle ( in She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith ) has only to turn to Jerry Blackacre and his mother, while Manly ( for whom Wycherley's early patron, the Duke of Montausier, sat ), though he is perhaps overdone, has dominated this kind of stage character ever since.

She finally sat down in the grotto to take her shoes off in order to cross the water and was lowering her first stocking when she heard the sound of rushing wind, but nothing moved.

She was politically active in her White House years as her husband's closest adviser and sat in on Cabinet and policy meetings.

She then sat rotting until 2005, when she was moved to Warkworth for rebuilding.

She later made a big-budget video for the song " Set It Off ", in which she sat in a locker room as her pubic and armpit hair grew to Rapunzel length.

She was chained in a storeroom for six months, until, as she describes, Jesus sat down at her bedside, and asked her, " Daughter, why hast thou forsaken Me, and I forsook never thee?

She reported that Holliday came back to his room, sat on the bed, wept and said, " that was awful — awful ".

She thought royal status might come her way when, while she was still in Rome, she met Pulley Bey, a personal procurer to King Farouk of Egypt.

Catherine was quite short in stature with long red hair, wide blue eyes, a round face, and a fair complexion. She was descended, on her maternal side, from the English royal house ; her great-grandmother Catherine of Lancaster, after whom she was named, and her great-great-grandmother Philippa of Lancaster were both daughters of John of Gaunt and granddaughters of Edward III of England.

She successfully educated herself by immersing herself in languages, in the rediscovered classics and humanism of the early Renaissance, and in Charles V ’ s royal archive that housed a vast number of manuscripts.

She married Etienne du Castel, a royal secretary to the court, at the age of 15.

She recruited for the campaign, finally assembling some of her royal ladies-in-waiting as well as 300 non-noble vassals.

She sponsored writers and artists and donated much of her personal wealth, including her royal insignia, to charity, for purposes including the founding of hospitals.

She was given her own court based at Ludlow Castle and many of the royal prerogatives normally reserved for the Prince of Wales.

She granted a royal charter to the Muscovy Company, whose first governor was Sebastian Cabot, and commissioned a world atlas from Diogo Homem.

She failed in her attempt to use a church synod to dismiss the catholicos Michael, and the noble council, darbazi, asserted the right to approve royal decrees.

She even apparently looked down on her own grandmother, Mary of Teck, because Mary was royal only by marriage, whereas Margaret was royal by birth.

She met with Elizabeth at Greenwich Palace, wearing a fine gown, the two of them surrounded by guards and the members of Elizabeth's royal Court.

She met the King, the Dauphin Louis-Auguste, and the royal aunts ( Louis XV's daughters, known as Mesdames ), one week later.

She wished instead for the rest of the royal family to accompany her.

She recuperated during a Caribbean cruise aboard the royal yacht, Britannia.

She was 101 years old, and at the time of her death was the longest-lived member of the royal family in British history.

She rejected his proposal twice, in 1921 and 1922, reportedly because she was reluctant to make the sacrifices necessary to become a member of the royal family.

She was born at the Hôtel Saint-Pol ( a royal palace in Paris ) on 27 October 1401.

She further alleged that Caroline had been rude about the royal family, touched her in an inappropriately sexual way, and had admitted that any woman friendly with a man was sure to become his lover.

She commissioned works such as terracotta busts of the kings and queens of England from Michael Rysbrack, and supervised a more naturalistic design of the royal gardens by William Kent and Charles Bridgeman.

She was able to save a good part of the school, although the royal bequest and the number of staff were much reduced.

She was unable to divorce her husband ( despite his documented insanity ) because of his relationship to the Spanish royal family, and the duchess and Zaharoff had to wait until the Duke's natural death.

She is also featured in the Disney on Ice shows Princess Classics and Princess Wishes, as a princess, despite her lack of royal ties.

She loved dancing and pageants, activities often frowned upon in Presbyterian Scotland, but for which she found a vibrant outlet in Jacobean London, where she created a " rich and hospitable " cultural climate at the royal court, became an enthusiastic playgoer, and sponsored lavish masques.

" She joined the literary circles of New York and Boston and made the acquaintance of local lights on the lecture circuit, such as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, a book whose anti-slavery message Leonowens had brought to the attention of the royal household.